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In an ancient hypothesis of the pre-Singularity ur-civilization, a
golem was a non self-conscious entity that acted
just like a conscious one: it
laughed, cried, talked, ate, and generally behaved just like a real person, and
if questioned, would claim to be
conscious - but behind its
superficial behavior, there was nobody home,
no internalized
model of the universe it lived in.
The
philosophers had
hypothesized that no such zombies existed, and that everything that claimed
personhood was actually a person.
But the
mammalians - those rugose,
endothermic anthropoids with their ridiculously small incisors and anarchic
social arrangements - knew better.
They also knew that you don't fight
an infowar attack with facts and figures, any more than you attack
a railway locomotive
with spears and stone axes.
You don't fight
a reptilian replicator attack by
throwing energy and matter at hatchlings that will just use the matter and
energy for fuel.
The more a
mammalian is forced
to corrupt empathy, the more she aches inside, and the more she grieves, the
more she hates the reptilians.
"Before launching any new
foreign adventures, the Bush
gang has some homeland housekeeping to take care of: it is going to sweep
up those pesky non-governmental organizations that are helping to turn world
opinion against US
bombs and brands.
The war on NGOs is being fought on two clear
fronts.
One buys the silence and complicity of mainstream
humanitarian and religious groups by offering
lucrative reconstruction
contracts.
The other
marginalizes and
criminalizes more independent-minded NGOs by claiming that their work is
a threat to democracy.
The US Agency for International Development (USAID) is in
charge of handing out the carrots,
while the American
Enterprise Institute, the most powerful think-tank in Washington, is
wielding the sticks." - Naomi Klein
"We are all tattooed in our cradles with
the beliefs of our tribe; the record may seem superficial, but it is indelible.
You cannot educate a man wholly out of superstitious fears which were implanted
in his imagination, no matter how utterly his reason may reject them."- Oliver
Wendell Holmes |
Social stigma is severe social
disapproval of personal characteristics or beliefs that appear
outside of social
cultural norms.
Social stigma often leads to
marginalization.
Words in parenthesis ( ) are examples.
Social
stigmas can be physical (leprosy,
anorexia nervosa,
obesity,
scars or
tattoos) or
mental
disabilities (mongolism),
disorders or
illnesses (acne), as well as
illegitimacy,
skin color or
membership with a specific
nationality, religion (Pentecostal) or
lack of religion (atheist) or they may harken to
fictional
characters such as Vampires or
Zombies.
A social
stigma may be created by proclaiming oneself to be of a certain ethnicity
(mixed or minority), religion (Heaven's Gate),
ideology (neo-conservatism/neo-liberalism,
corporatist,
communist,
socialist),
political party (Nazism,
Zionism,
Wahhabism) in any of a myriad of
geopolitical and corresponding sociopolitical contexts in various parts of the
world.
What is accepted and expected in one social culture may be seen
as totally aberrant and decadent in the social culture
over the hills and far
away.
The perception or attribution,
rightly or wrongly, of
criminality in all social
cultures carries a strong social
stigma that creates exclusion zones.
Criminals (illegal
drug users, thieves,
pedophiles), those refusing to
abide by the rules of conduct of the
social culture, will be branded with a barcode.
Individuals perceived to have poor "manners" or "strange" behavior
are many times stigmatized as criminals even though there was no criminal
intent and the actions committed were infractions and trival misdemeanors.
Tribal stigmas
are either traits of an ethnicity, nation, or religion deemed to constitute a
deviation from prevailing normative combinations of ethnicity, nationality or
religious behavior or they may simply be
antiCulture.
Although the specific social
categories that become stigmatized can vary across time and place, the three
basic forms of stigma (physical
deformity, unacceptable
personal behavioral traits, and
tribal outgroup status) are
found in throughout most cultures and time periods.
It is most likely
the tendency to stigmatize has evolutionary roots.
Individuals that are
perceived to function poorly in the group environment are seen as
uncooperative and therefore
untrustworthy.
Coöperation is the
trademark of successful social groupings.
Of special note here it
must be pointed out that individuals who perceive a disjunction of the social
culture from actual real conditions and speak out may be stigmatize even though
they have a valid, if unpopular,
point of
view.
Sameness of human
nature arises from the fact
humans share
affinities that allow differences to be transcended in the
realization of common
pleasures.
Social cultural
conditioning creates social cultural bonds
through the creation of commonalities amidst
individual differences.
If human life is enriched by
good forms of social
organization it is to be expected that human life is impeded by
bad forms of social
organization.
Social
arrangements modify individual
self-awareness.
Individuals form
common notions as individuals can not entirely transcend their cultural
perceptions in relation to a their own particular social
culture.
1928 As
headmaster of Verdun High School in the
suburbs of Montreal Donald
Olding Hebb takes an innovative approach to education assigning interesting
schoolwork and sending
disruption outside.
1937 At the Montreal
Neurological Institute Hebb recognizes the brain of a child could regain
partial or full function when a portion is removed but
similar damage in
an adult could be catastrophic.
He deduced the
prominent role external
stimulation play in thought processes.
Lack of stimulation causes diminished
function and sometimes hallucinations.
1942
At the Yerkes Laboratories of Primate Biology at the Yerkes National
Primate Research Center Hebb develops
emotional tests for
chimpanzees.
1949 In The Organization of Behavior Donald Olding Hebb
introduces the concepts of
synaptic
plasticity and cell assemblies to
provide a theory of the neurophysiological basis of behavior.
Hebb
influences all areas of psychology and neuroscience:
Hebbian Learning -
Connections between
neurons increase in efficacy in proportion to the degree of correlation between
pre- and post-synaptic activity.
Cell Assembly -
Group of neurons tend to
fire together.
Phase Sequence -
Thinking is the sequential
activation of sets of cell-assemblies.
"When an axon of cell A is
near enough to excite cell B and repeatedly or persistently takes part in
firing it, some growth process or metabolic change takes place in one or both
cells such that A's efficiency, as one of the cells firing B, is increased." -
Donald Olding Hebb
June 1, 1951 Donald Hebb, head of McGill’s psychology
department, and officials from the Canadian Defence Research Board, the
CIA and the British Defence
Research Policy Committee meet to discuss research.
Donald Hebb is
tasked to experiments in sensory deprivation .
1957 CIA funds
bizarre experiments on
healthy confused
individuals keeping them asleep and in isolation for weeks or months;
administering doses of electroshock thirty to
forty times the normal power; testing experimental drug cocktails which
included neuroleptics,
LSD, PCP and
MDMA.
Many victims
are normal people
seeking relief from minor psychiatric
ailments - postpartum
depression, anxiety,
even for help to deal with marital
difficulties.
They were used as
experimental test subjects,
without informed
consent - as human guinea pigs
to satisfy the thirst for information on how to control human thought
process'.
Project MKUltra eventually leads to the publication of the
KUBARK Counterintelligence
Interrogation manual which suggest the most effective method of passive
enslavment is social
isolation of the non-compliant.
1964 MKSEARCH
designed to develop, test, and evaluate capabilities in the covert use of
biological,
chemical, and
radioactive material systems
and techniques for
producing predictable human behavioral
and/or physiological changes in
support of highly sensitive operational requirements.
1973 CIA
Director Richard Helms destroys all MKUltra files.
1975 Church Committee reports CIA and the
DoD had conducted experiments on
both unwitting and cognizant human subjects as part of an extensive program
to influence and control human behavior through the use of psychoactive drugs
along with other chemical, biological, and psychological
means.
Presidential-appointed commission releases information publicly
that reveals that,
days before his death, the CIA surreptitiously dosed Olson with
LSD.
Critical witness'
die strangely only days and weeks before they are to be questioned by
prosecutors; government officials refused to speak and those that do
suddenly developed severe
amnesia; crucial documents disapear; investigators were intimidated and
threatened.
Protracted social isolation of
adult mice induced behavioral, transcriptional and ultrastructuralchanges in
oligodendrocytes of the prefrontal cortex and
impaired adult myelination.
Social re-integration was sufficient to
normalize behavioral and transcriptional changes.
Short periods of
isolation affected chromatin and myelin, but did not induce behavioral changes.
Myelinating oligodendrocytes in the adult
prefrontal cortex respond
to social interaction with chromatin changes, suggesting myelination acts as a
form of adult
plasticity.
Prefrontal cortex is involved
in complex emotional and cognitive behavior.
Early social
experiences in neonatal or juvenile animals result in defective developmental
myelination.
In mice deprived of social stimuli ultrastructural analysis
revealed thinner myelin sheaths in
prefrontal cortex,
but not in the corpus
callosum.
In social isolation, brain makes less
myelin
Throughout our lifespan, new sensory experiences and learning
continually shape neuronal circuits to form new memories.
Plasticity of
oligodendrocytes and myelin sheaths play a crucial role in learning and memory
through modification of the oligodendrocyte lineage following sensory
experience.
Physiological and behavioural consequences of plasticity
manipulation is now recognized in the evidence for oligodendrocyte and myelin
dysfunction in neurodevelopmental disorders with cognitive
symptoms.
"Neuroplasticity has the power to produce more flexible but
also more rigid behaviors - a phenomenon I call "the plastic paradox."
Ironically, some stubborn habits and disorders are products of
plasticity.
Once a particular plastic change occurs in the brain and
becomes well established, it can prevent other changes from occurring.
It is by understanding both the positive and negative effects of
plasticity that we can truly understand the extent of human possibilities." -
Norman Doidge |
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